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The grownups are all very busy, but the children are all bored.
Bored or having nightmares. But Tasárinon was not on a ship and did not see the people dying and has only heard it thirdhand and can't exactly have nightmares about the look in his mother's eyes - well, he probably could, but he hasn't - so he's bored, and he is drawing on the floor. It is an absurdly intricate drawing. He has been embellishing it for three days.
"At the ceasefire I can propose to the Enemy that we all fight with swords and bows, see how that goes over."
"That was how we warred in Valinor! And then the stakes changed and we realized we didn't have the 'de-escalating' skill more militant cultures must acquire. Valinor had a violent crime rate of 'what's that'."
"Earth spent a while with two of the most powerful nations both openly having systems set up so that if one fired on the other, the other would fire back and wipe them out even if the first strike killed them all. It was called 'mutually assured destruction'."
"That sounds like the sort of idea my father would come up with. But not act on. Because he'd find the incentives elegant and then remember he's not actually a mass murderer. I suppose now he technically is. But he still wouldn't do that."
"Humans in general believe they are operating without a net. Limbo's not common knowledge, nor that some daeva are ex-humans."
"Yep. I was teaching a class and he walked right in with a gun and nipped me in the head."
"No - well, it's commoner than 'completely unheard of', but no. He was really mad at me."
"Oh, he was relying on the extreme obscurity of daeva to maintain certain kinds of economic scarcity he wanted to profit off of and it turns out I wasn't quite anonymous enough when I blew the secret open."
"It still has a little material scarcity. Demons having our terrible reputation and all."
"I'm in the habit of not telling people. Murderer didn't, I only know why he shot me because he cryptically informed the police that I had ruined his livelihood."
"It's more revealing of your priorities and reasoning than general declared friendliness, much as I appreciate general declared friendliness. It must have saved millions of lives."
"I did an estimate once! It is very rough but the estimate is in fact billions at this point!"
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